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00:10Kazakhstan aims to become a food processing hub.
00:13Processed products accounted for 60% of agricultural output last year,
00:17while exports of processed foods rose by 35%, reaching over 2.5 billion euro.
00:23The government now wants value-added products to dominate agricultural exports.
00:29Welcome to East-West Connect.
00:31We're highlighting business and economic opportunities in Kazakhstan
00:34and the wider Central Asian region, connecting with Europe and beyond.
00:38With oil seed processing capacity at 5 million tons per year,
00:42Kazakhstan ranks among the top three suppliers of sunflower meal to the EU
00:47and the world's top 10 exporters of sunflower oil.
00:50It produced 890,000 tons of vegetable oil last year, up 17% from 2024.
00:56The country is also the EU's second largest supplier of durum wheat
01:00and already processes 5 million tons of grain annually.
01:04By 2028, it plans to add 6 million tons of deep grain processing capacity,
01:09focusing on higher-value products such as amino acids, syrups and vitamins.
01:15For more on the country's food processing ambitions,
01:17we spoke to Kazakhstan's Vice Minister of Agriculture, Yerbol Tashjurekov.
01:24President President Trump
01:25The government has been put out a number of complex measures
01:28on the development of product spending.
01:33That's about the secretion, to the development of liquidity,
01:38to the investment of financial financing,
01:39the naszego enterprise, the financial aid,
01:43and the opening of new investment projects,
01:48die wir in den Köln geplanten sind,
01:50die wir in den Köln aufregenkommen haben.
01:53Wir haben heute eine bestimmte Pipeline für die Initiative,
01:57die wir und die Inhaltung haben,
02:00mit den Investoren, mit den Regionen,
02:02die wir festgestellt haben,
02:04die Produkte, die wir in den Köln geplant haben,
02:06um die Veröffentlichung zu erhöhen,
02:10die der Produktivität der Produkte und die nächste Experte.
02:14Wie ist die Köln-Algängste?
02:15Es ist eine Regulierung der Ernährung mit EU-Standards,
02:20insbesondere in Fleisch, Fisch und Honey.
02:45Wenn wir, in dem Sinne, importeren Produkte auf 7 komponenten,
02:48dann können wir unsere Produkte über 72 komponenten.
02:52Das ist ein sehr starker und stützlicher Kontrollen
02:55mit unserer Produkte.
02:56Und in diesem Sinne, wir haben,
03:00wir haben, dass wir die Sertifikat,
03:04und die Verabschiedung,
03:04die, zum Beispiel, die Europäische Union,
03:07das Möde, das Rübe,
03:09in dem Sinne, jetzt bereits ein Paket
03:12für die Sertifikat,
03:13das Kastanische Mäste.
03:14Mr. Tejurekov, thanks for being with us today.
03:17Thank you.
03:20Elsewhere in the sector, the dairy industry processes about 2.7 million tons of milk annually,
03:25while meat processing enterprises produce 450,000 tons.
03:30Against that backdrop, one of the sector's leading companies is expanding its processing capacity.
03:38Kazakhstan's poultry experts are partly driven by the ITAS Holding Group,
03:42which plans to nearly quadruple total output to 350,000 tons by 2030.
03:49The group owns Central Asia's largest poultry farm, located in Kazakhstan's Akmola region.
03:54The Makhinsk poultry complex produces 90,000 tons of meat per year
03:58and offers 80 products across the full-value chain,
04:01from chilled meat to further processed and ready-to-cook items.
04:04If you look at the last year, Kazakhstan exported only 31,000 tons of meat from fish.
04:11But here, the cost of our company is 11,000 tons.
04:15If you say, who we sell, and in which countries,
04:18then you can call it the Russian Federation,
04:20it's Kyrgyzstan, it's Tajikistan, it's Uzbekistan, and it's Belarus.
04:24And now we are working on the basis of expanding the market market.
04:28We look at China and Central Asia.
04:31The Makhinsk poultry farm was launched in 2015 with support from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
04:38and the Baitirek Venture Fund with a credit line from the Development Bank of Kazakhstan.
05:00As Kazakhstan rubs up production, the sector is increasingly focused on expanding capacity and boosting experts.
05:08To discuss financing for the sector and how this growth is being supported,
05:13we're joined by Marat Yulibayev, chairman of the board of the Development Bank of Kazakhstan.
05:20Mr. Yulibayev, thanks for joining us.
05:22Thank you, Boutang Kost, for my invitation.
05:24What are the main barriers to shifting from raw commodity exports to deep value,
05:28and what conditions are still needed to accelerate the sector's development?
05:32Kazakhstan has abundant resources of land, so we have more than 200 million hectares of agricultural land,
05:39and we have more than 25 million hectares of arable land.
05:43So we produce a lot of raw materials, but primarily grain, its oil products, not really processed products.
05:54So just to give an example, in terms of grain production,
05:59last year we produced more than 25 million tons of grain,
06:03but only one-fifth had been processed in Kazakhstan.
06:06And if you talk about deep processing, it's only a few percentage percentage.
06:10So we have a strong base of raw materials,
06:14and the question is how we're going to process and produce
06:17and to create more value, additional value products in Kazakhstan.
06:23And here is a very important point is to build new production facilities in Kazakhstan,
06:30which is going to use those raw materials and create new products.
06:36If the food industry is to drive growth,
06:40what segments offer the strongest long-term financing potential,
06:44and what DBK instruments are currently most in demand
06:48to modernize food production?
06:50We see a lot of potential there.
06:53We're talking about deep grain processing,
06:56production of biotanol, production of lisin, syrup,
07:00some dairy products, production of oil and fat ingredients, etc., etc.,
07:06where we see a strong potential in Kazakhstan.
07:11Development Bank of Kazakhstan focuses on two main directions.
07:14The first one, I would say,
07:16we focus on developing new investment projects,
07:20so it's long-term financing to create new production facilities in Kazakhstan.
07:25And second direction is export financing.
07:28So when the local company wants to export,
07:33they potentially could apply for us in terms of getting export financing
07:37in order to help them to sell their products abroad.
07:42Both directions, I would say,
07:44are having a strong interest from the entrepreneurs.
07:48Mr. Gilibayev, thanks so much for your time today.
07:51Thank you, Bhutagos.
07:54That's all for now.
07:55See you in the next episode of EasyBest Connect.
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